This piece for Malachain collects the advice that holds up in practice.
A satisfying start to woodworking needs a corner of a room, a sturdy table and five tools: a hand saw, a block plane, a chisel, a marking gauge and a square. Hand tools are quiet, cheap second-hand and safe enough for a flat. The first project should be small and useful, such as a bread board, a shelf bracket or a box with simple joints.
Learn to sharpen before anything else; a sharp chisel is a pleasure and a dull one is dangerous. Buy a single board of straight-grained softwood and practise cutting it square and planing it flat until that feels easy. Every later skill rests on those two. Keep the offcuts for test joints, and expect the second box to be far better than the first.
There is more to learn on this subject, and the linked website goes into greater depth. Treat this article as an introduction rather than the final word, and check any important decision against up-to-date, reliable sources before relying on it.
If you try any of these ideas, start small and adjust them to your own situation. What works for one person will not suit everyone, and it is fine to keep only the parts that help. Writing down what you changed, and what happened, makes it much easier to see after a few weeks whether the effort was worthwhile.
The most useful step is usually the first one. Pick a single suggestion, try it for a couple of weeks, and then decide whether it is worth keeping. Small, steady improvements last longer than ambitious plans that are hard to maintain once everyday life gets busy again.